Jeremiah 23:37 This is what you keep saying to a prophet: 'What is the LORD's answer to you?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'

◄ Jeremiah 23:37 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
This is what you keep saying to a prophet: 'What is the LORD's answer to you?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'

English Standard Version
Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’

New American Standard Bible
"Thus you will say to that prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

King James Bible
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must say to the prophet: What has the LORD answered you? and What has the LORD spoken?

International Standard Version
This is what you should say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered?' or 'What has the LORD said?'

American Standard Version
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath the Lord answered thee? and what hath the Lord spoken?

Darby Bible Translation
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet: What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

Young's Literal Translation
Thus dost thou say unto the prophet What hath Jehovah answered thee? And what hath Jehovah spoken?

Cross References

Jeremiah 23:36
And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

Jeremiah 23:38
But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus said the LORD; Because you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

23:33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now be cast out of his presence. It is a mark of great and daring impiety for men to jest with the words of God. Every idle and profane word will add to the sinner's burden in the day of judgment, when everlasting shame will be his portion.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

36. every man's word … his burden—As they mockingly call all prophecies burdens, as if calamities were the sole subject of prophecy, so it shall prove to them. God will take them at their own word.

living God—not lifeless as their dumb idols, ever living so as to be able to punish.